BarkingSpider

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• Commented on Virgin America: Now, with Absinthe.
  When I had absinthe (true absinthe, not the American variety) in Canada, it had a more of an affect on me that consuming alcohol. Maybe I'm missing some scientific data that disputes my experience, but I don't understand where people...
• Commented on Swine Flu Q & A
  Your entries are the first on this site that I've decided to always read. Thanks so much for writing them....
• Commented on Teaching journalism with virtual worlds
  SL made a big splash with the non-game playing (specifically non MMORPG playing) world when it came out. For those who had never experienced what it's like to move an avatar around in an virtual world, it was (maybe still...
• Commented on Sapolsky on primate sexuality part two: required viewing for the horny
  @ #2 Cledog Remind me not to have you take notes for me when I miss class. He never says that cologne is made of cat piss. What he says is that he's been trying to find out (maybe using...
• Commented on When It All Falls Apart
  I suspect there are a few reasons for entries like this one (and it's not the only one, by far): - Pessimism is much easier than optimism. - World doom sells. - Morbid fascination. - The author is scared and...
• Commented on Hamster on whether organic food tastes better
  It's worth watching the outtakes from their site. In order to get the hamster interested in the food, someone would lift the organic carrot (on the right) up and put it in the hamster's face, and then set it back...
• Commented on Book-spines turned into stories
  I once asked a girl out this way. She worked at a library check-out desk, and I brought in a series of books that, as she checked them out, asked her out on a date. Unfortunately for the idea (but...
• Commented on Balloon animals from trash bags: Joshua Allen Harris
  Reminds me of these: http://www.woostercollective.com/2008/03/street_art_at_its_best_3_plastic_animals.html...
• Commented on Anatomic model puzzles of surpassing loveliness
  I remember that once our class found out that the lens of the cow's eyeball would bounce much like a wobbly Super Ball, the things went flying around the classroom walls and tables. Our teacher, understandably, was not amused....
• Commented on Charlie Stross in Second Life this Saturday
  And in other news...Second Life still exists and people still use it. At least this was news to me. ;-)...
• Commented on Cooking Young Bamboo Shoots with Joi Ito (score by Ryuichi Sakamoto)
  Did anyone else expect something jump out of the bushes and attack the harvesters because of the suspenseful music? Great video, and great music...the combination was slightly unsettling. ;-)...
• Commented on Man pretends sex with car, busted
  "...but since he was running down the street naked he'd be charged with that even if he didn't dry hump the Honda. So to speak." What's great is that the 'so to speak' isn't even needed; that's precisely what happened....
• Commented on Chicago sleepwalks into the surveillance society with "intelligent" networked cameras
  "if you're doing nothing wrong, you should be worried." Freudian slip FTW. That should read "shoudn't...
• Commented on Chicago sleepwalks into the surveillance society with "intelligent" networked cameras
  @#10- baskoner Jaywalking? Really? Even reckless jaywalking seems not reason enough to "bring on" a surveillance system. My point here (one that I wish was so common sense that it was hackneyed) is that when we turn over our security...
• Commented on Passenger moons speed camera
  Perhaps, just perhaps, the car itself was traveling at the speed limit, but the camera picked up the advancing speed of the man's bum as it approached the windshield--which would necessarily be faster than the car itself....
• Commented on TSA: laptops will stop making planes explode if you just build a bag like this one
  @ #18 "I fully expect to be asked to strip naked and hop around holding one of my feet in my hand while being pelted with ping pong balls the next time I fly." You have that dream too?...
• Commented on Early 20th century charts of biblical teachings
  PaulBalls must be going crazy right now......
• Commented on Misused churchyard sign
  Of course, what's truly delicious about this whole thread is that PaulBalls begins his comment by objecting to the term "stroppy". Dictionary.com defines stroppy as "bad-tempered or hostile; quick to take offense." This describes PaulBall's posts perfectly....
• Commented on The TSA has a blog
  @ #2 Over 700 comments on the first post, they closed comments on it....